4 dead after helicopter appears to strike recreational slackline in Arizona

Four people died in an Arizona helicopter crash Friday after the aircraft appeared to strike a more than half-mile long “recreational slackline” strung across a mountain rage, the Pinal County Sheriff’s Office said

Four people died in an Arizona helicopter crash Friday after the aircraft appeared to strike a more than half-mile long “recreational slackline” strung across a mountain rage, the Pinal County Sheriff’s Office said.

The sheriff’s office said that around 11 a.m. it received reports of a helicopter that crashed in the mountains near Telegraph Canyon, south of the town of Superior.

Four family members were killed in the crash, including the 59-year-old pilot, a 22-year-old woman and two 21-year-old women, the sheriff’s office said.

"Preliminary evidence indicates a recreational slackline more than one kilometer long had been strung across the mountain range," the sheriff's office said in an update Friday afternoon.

"An eyewitness who called 911 reported seeing the helicopter strike a portion of the line before falling to the bottom of the canyon," the office said.